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Gelon-Bilsk Grandiose Scythian Fortress in Central Ukraine: Account of Herodotus
“In exploring Herodotus' route through the northern Scythian regions, it is necessary to touch upon the detailed description of the city of Gelon in...
Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Places the Father of History visited
“Without repeating what has already been said about Herodotus's brief excursions around Olbia (Cape Hippola, the sanctuary of Demeter, Hylaea, the mouth of the...
Darius the Great’s Way from Persian Susa to Scythia: Account of...
“The campaign began in Susa, deep in the Persian Empire. Herodotus says nothing about the Persians' movement through Asia. The army was supposed to...
Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Following in Darius the Great’s footsteps?
"What was Herodotus' goal in undertaking a journey to the northern shore of Pontus ? What cities known to us does he mention? Where...
Herodotus in Scythia/ Ukraine: Why the Father of History made the...
Academician B. Rybakov in his 1979 book ‘Scythia of Herodotus’: “After half a century of destructive Greco-Persian wars, during which the many thousands of armies...
Siversky Donets River, not the Don, is the Tanais of Ptolemy...
Ptolemy, the famed Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, in his second most well-known work, Geography (Book 3.5), provides coordinates of the...
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How Russia acquired brains and civilization for a while: Quotes from...
Muscovy-Russia likes to portray itself as a creative and educated nation, while trying to portray countries like Ukraine as the backward ones. To make...
Border between Muscovy and Ukraine in 1654 described by Syrian chronicler...
"...Having travelled other five miles, over wild deserts and through extensive forests entirely destitute of water, in the course of which progress we had...
Kvitka ‘Kacey’ Cisyk, Ukrainian-American famous singer was born April 4, 1953
Per Wikipedia, Kvitka "Kacey" Cisyk (Ukrainian: Квітка Цісик; Квітослава-Орися Цісик, Kvitka Tsisyk; April 4, 1953 – March 29, 1998) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity. Cisyk, a...
Invading Ukraine in 2014, Moscow used the same fake excuse as...
Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...
Pink lake in Ukraine attracts visitors for beauty, therapeutic healing –...
https://globalnews.ca/news/4358897/pink-lake-ukraine-attracts-visitors-therapeutic-healing/
Why Crane. About this Website
Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...
Russia weaponizes history in its war against Ukraine, – British Intelligence
The title image of this post is a screenshot of the UK Defence Intelligence review on Twitter dated 11 November. The author of the article you...
Forensic facial reconstruction of the ‘Russian’ ruler Andrey Bogolyubsky who allegedly...
Forensic facial reconstruction was made by famous Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist Mikhail Gerasimov. Among some 200 faces Gerasimov reconstructed are also the faces of emperor Timur (Tamerlane), Yaroslav...
Central WW2 Victory Parade should have always been held in Kyiv
In 1945, American war correspondent Edgar Snow visited Ukraine and wrote: “It was not until I went on a sobering journey into this twilight of...
Ivan Piddubny, Ukrainian World-Famous Wrestler Whose Legacy Russia Tried to Appropriate
Two years ago, in 2021, Google devoted a Doodle to the 150th anniversary of the world-famous wrestler Ivan Piddubny. The text of it is:...
‘Targitaus hands his bow to his youngest son’ scene on Gaimanova...
Scythologist Dmitry Raevsky in an article at the UNESCO site wrote: "A few years ago, during the excavations at Gaimanova Mogila in Ukraine, a...
Gold Phiale (Libation Bowl) from Solokha Scythian Kurgan
The phiale was found in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine.

















